Stoicism, Robot proof jobs, Renovation tips, Tim Ho Wan, Pokémon: Five for Friday

Friday of June 23, 2017

Learn more about the history of Stoicism and how it can affect our lifes happiness. How can our jobs be robot proof! Doing a home renovations? Check out a few of this tips. Food and Dumplings, try out Tim Ho Wan food and dumplings. Are you the Pokémon generation? Learn Pokémon success and how it evolved through the years.

TED: The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci

Living a life of what is within our control. Living a happy and contented life. Living a life of purpose.

What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that while we may not always have control over the events affecting us, we can have control over how we approach things. Massimo Pigliucci describes the philosophy of Stoicism.

Techinasia: Find out how robot-proof you are in your job

Old article about insights of how our work is robot proof. Techinasia: Find out how robot-proof you are in your job.

Housing: 10 budget friendly renovation tips

Tips might be abit generic, but a quick reminder is also quite ok. For more details check out this blog post, Budget renovation tips.

Food: Tim Ho Wan

From buns to dumplings Tim Ho Wan specialized on these aspect. We usually have a casual lunch in Tim Ho Wan in Plaza Singapura. Checkout their wiki.

Crash Course: The Pokémon Phenomenon

Today we’re going to do something a little bit different and take everything we’ve learned so far and apply it to a case study on (arguably) the biggest game franchise in the world: Pokémon. Now Pokémon, like a select few other games we’ve discussed in this series has ingrained itself into our pop culture, but the way Pokémon has done this, and the extent of its reach into almost every genre of gaming is what makes it such a phenomenon. But interestingly, Pokémon’s success wasn’t only by chance.